Deploy your own private mobile network with OpenBTS, the open source software project that converts between the GSM and UMTS wireless radio interface and open IP protocols. With this hands-on, step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to use OpenBTS to construct simple, flexible, and inexpensive mobile networks with software.

OpenBTS can distribute any internet connection as a mobile network across a large geographic region, and provide connectivity to remote devices in the Internet of Things. Ideal for telecom and software engineers new to this technology, this book helps you build a basic OpenBTS network with voice and SMS services and data capabilities. From there, you can create your own niche product or experimental feature.

Select hardware, and set up a base operating system for your project

Configure, troubleshoot, and use performance-tuning techniques

Expand to a true multinode mobile network complete with Mobility and Handover

Add general packet radio service (GPRS) data connectivity, ideal for IoT devices

Build applications on top of the OpenBTS NodeManager control and event APIs

Title:

Getting Started with OpenBTS

By:

Michael Iedema

Publisher:

O'Reilly Media

Formats:

Print

Ebook

Safari Books Online

Print:

January 2015

Ebook:

January 2014

Pages:

124

Print ISBN:

978-1-4919-1065-8

| ISBN 10:

1-4919-1065-8

Ebook ISBN:

978-1-4919-1064-1

| ISBN 10:

1-4919-1064-X

Michael Iedema

After first experimenting with VoIP in 2004, Michael Iedema worked on IMS proof-of-concept projects until 2007, when he founded the AskoziaPBX project, an easy-to-use telephony system now deployed in countries around the world. After moving on in 2011 to do VoIP related research and development for Ubiquiti Networks, Michael is currently a Senior Engineer at Range Networks, the creators of OpenBTS.

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The sun conure is native to northeastern South America. Though its exact habitat requirements are largely unknown, sightings suggest it lives at the edge of humid forests growing in foothills in the Guiana Shield. Common among other members of the Aratinga genus, sun parakeets are social and typically found in groups of up to 30 individuals. They mainly feed on fruit, flowers, berries, and nuts.

They were previously categorized as Least Concern, but recent surveys in southern Guyana and Roraima (a Brazilian state) have shown rarity and possible extirpation. They are endangered and threatened by habitat loss and pet trade trapping. Though they are regularly bred in captivity, the capture of wild sun conures remains a serious threat.

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